The Dreaming

After that date, attending memberships will be available only at the convention, until it’s sold out (500), at the following rates:

Full Weekend $120
Friday only $ 50
Saturday only $ 75
Sunday only $ 50

All attending memberships, including one-day memberships, include a copy of the Fiddler’s Green Souvenir Book
(http://www.fiddlersgreencon.org/souvenir.htm).

The registration form (including the option to join the CBLDF) and mailing instructions are available at http://www.fiddlersgreencon.org/membership.htm.

(US residents: please note that USPS Express and Priority Mail *will* deliver to PO boxes, and should take 3-4 days for delivery.)

See you there!

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Hotel Room Reservations Deadline Extended!
The Millennium has extended our hotel reservations deadline! We’re now accepting hotel room reservation forms until *October 29, 2004*.

The form is available on the Fiddlers Green website at http://www.fiddlersgreencon.org/hotel.htm. If you have any difficulty downloading the form, please contact innkeeper AT fiddlersgreencon.org.

Our special group rate for standard rooms is $115 per night (plus tax) for 1-4 occupants.

(Please note that “triple” and “quad” refer to the number of people sharing the room. Standard hotel rooms either have two double beds or one king-sized bed. However, roll away beds can be requested. Also there are a very limited number of adjoining rooms available.)

Hotel room reservation forms should be mailed to:
Fiddler’s Green
PO Box 527
Grand Blanc, MI 48480-0527 USA

Please be sure to mail your form so that we have it *by October 29* so we can include you in our block at the special rate.

From cult author and filmmaker Neil Gaiman-the endlessly creative genius behind theiotherworldly film fantasy MirrorMask and The Sandman graphic novels-comes A Short Film About John Bolton,ia darkly hip and hilarious film which explores the question that torments artists of every medium: “Where do your ideas come from?”

Renowned artist John Bolton’s paintings of voluptuous she-vampire nudes have earned this quiet eccentricia reputationifor havingia “damaged imagination.” BBC radio personality Jonathan Ross buys his pieces, which leads interviewer extraordinaire Marcus Brigstockeito find out what theiappeal isiin Bolton’s beautiful (but terrifying) artwork. Why does Bolton demand that his gallery “monsterpieces” speak for themselves? What does he do with that ornamental knife that he carries everywhere? Will Marcus ever learn how to operate a camera?

• Commentary Track With Director Neil Gaiman and Actor Marcus Brigstocke
• Feature Length Documentary on Neil Gaiman: Live At The Aladdin
• The Making of John Bolton Interview with Neil Gaiman
• John Bolton Photo Gallery
• Neil Gaiman Audio Recording: Drawn In Darkness
• Cast and Crew Biographies
• Interactive Menus
• Scene Selection

Neil Gaiman’s World Fantasy Award nominated short story SHOGGOTH’S OLD PECULIAR will be published as a limited-edition chapbook with a new full color cover and 12 full-page interior illustrations by Jouni Koponen.

Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar is a very funny, somewhat scary story about what a young American Tourist encounters when he fetches up for the night in the Lovecraftian town of Innsmouth. The original illustrations combine horror and humour in equal measure.

Neil Gaiman is the award-winning writer of the epic comic series SANDMAN, and New York Times Best Sellers AMERICAN GODS, ENDLESS NIGHTS and CORALINE. “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” appears in his 1998 short fiction collection SMOKE AND MIRRORS and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. He is currently working on his new novel, ANANSI BOYS.

Jouni Koponen is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Henlinna, Finland, with his wife and child. Koponen has contributed work to several Finnish books, magazines, and newspapers, but SHOGGOTH’S OLD PECULIAR is his first internationally published work.

Koponen began work on SHOGGOTH’S OLD PECULIAR as an artistic exercise for his own amusement. Koponen, in Finland, sent Gaiman a web-link to his illustrations, and Gaiman, impressed, passed it on to Greg Ketter at DreamHaven Books.

Ketter immediately realised that what Jouni had done would
make an excellent chapbook. DreamHaven Books has previously published Gaiman’s short stories SNOW GLASS APPLES and ON CATS AND DOGS as limited edition chapbooks.

The SHOGGOTH’S OLD PECULIAR chapbook, which will be limited to a print run of 5000 copies, will be launched on November 12th, 2004. Initially the book will be made available only to members of Fiddler’s Green, the Sandman convention being held in Minneapolis November 12th — 14th, 2004 (http://www.fiddlersgreencon.org). Remaining copies of SHOGGOTH’S OLD PECULIAR will be available to the public through DreamHaven Books following the convention.

As with previous DreamHaven Gaiman chapbooks, a portion of
the profits will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
(http://www.cbldf.org).

SHOGGOTH’S OLD PECULIAR
44 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 full-colour wraparound cover